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Baptized Joseph Paul Dumais. Son of Paul Dumais (deceased in 1909) and Élizabeth Pelletier (deceased in 1908). He stated being born in 1887 in Edmundston, New Brunswick.
When he enlisted, he name as next of kin his brother Achille “Archer”, of Edmundston, but Achille survived Paul by only six weeks, when he died of typhoid.
Enlisted in the 57th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, serial number 49019, he stated that he had served with the 67th Regiment. On October 13, 1915, he was transferred to the 41st Battalion, service number 417374, and sailed for Great Britain on the 18th, arriving in Plymouth on the 28th. On February 29, 1916, he transferred to the 23rd Reserve Battalion and left for France on April 16, arriving in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, the same day. He had been transferred to the 22nd Battalion on the 15th. On May 6, he went to the front line. He was slightly wounded during combat at Courcelette on September 18. He was killed in action on May 1, 1917, at Fresnoy during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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Page 231 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Thelus is a village 7 kilometres north of Arras and BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY is about half a mile east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire-Berthoult.
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